Showing posts with label NHTSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NHTSA. Show all posts
Friday, January 26, 2018

Calls to lower the legal limit to .05

›
In the latest step in the never-ending quest to criminalize everything, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine have cal...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Feds seeking to lower legal limit to .05

›
The National Transportation Safety Board has decided that the per se  limit for drunk driving should be lowered to .05 . Such a move would l...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Causation or correlation?

›
So here I am heading home from the office the other day listening to All Things Considered  on the radio and there's this story about Ke...
2 comments:
Friday, July 8, 2011

The eyes have it?

›
The American Optometric Association adopted a resolution at their 2011 House of Delegates endorsing the use of the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Highway fatality rates drop to lowest level since 1949

›
With state after state ramping up DWI enforcement and dreaming up new ways to violate motorists' rights comes news that the rate of traf...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Something's just not adding up

›
If you listen to MADD and law enforcement, you might think the roads are more dangerous today than they've ever been. You might think th...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Austin police chief wants new DWI charge

›
Art Acevedo, the police chief in Austin, Texas, has gone on the record in favor of creating a new DWI offense in Texas. Mr. Acevedo would l...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy trails to you

›
Isn't driving into opposing traffic one of the "most common and reliable initial indicators of DWI" according to NHTSA?
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Seeing might just be believing

›
Earlier this month, police in Clarence, NY pulled over Michael Bartz for driving 59 mph in a 45 mph zone. That Mr. Bartz was speeding wasn...
2 comments:
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Sleep deprivation mimics effects of intoxication

›
According to studies by the National Sleep Foundation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the symptoms of driving while...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Driving under the influence of drugs

›
By now we're all aware of the effect of alcohol on our bodies. We understand that the more alcohol you consume, the more ethanol makes i...
4 comments:
Friday, February 13, 2009

The driver in motion

›
Contrary to popular belief, most DWI arrests don't start off with bad driving behavior.  In its brochure The Visual Detection of DWI Mot...
1 comment:
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Brace yourself for another "No Refusal" weekend

›
Here's a preview of NHTSA's anti-drunk driving campaign for the holiday season.  I don't have any specific dates for when the e...
Monday, December 1, 2008

HGN and hearsay

›
The Amarillo Court of Appeals has reversed a DWI conviction because the trial court allowed the prosecutor to introduce a letter from the Am...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Drink. Drive. Go to Jail?

›
NHTSA's new DWI enforcement campaign is now underway through Labor Day and, once again, it's time to remind our fellow citizens of ...